Example sentences of "do [adv] [vb infin] [noun] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Motorola did not return calls by press time . |
2 | Motorola did not return calls by press time . |
3 | Meanwhile , to ensure that the Germans did not rush reinforcements by rail to the threatened area , General Alexei Alexeievich Brusilov , commanding the South West Front , was ordered to make menacing probes in his area . |
4 | And he did not promise government by principle ; a politician to the core , Mr Clinton prefers to work by consensus and compromise . |
5 | Humans do not read character by character . |
6 | The other children on the ward did n't get parcels by post . |
7 | They do n't carry horses by train much now . |
8 | Because there are three parts to this definition it is called the tripartite definition or the tripartite account ; it defines propositional knowledge , knowledge that p ; it does not define knowledge by acquaintance as in ‘ a knows James ’ nor knowledge-how , e.g. knowledge how to ride a bicycle , unless these can be shown to reduce to knowledge-that . |